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Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for Developers Using React | Jun 2023

You get the comfort of using react components instead of fighting with HTML tables to make your emails look nice. I think it's awesome! It's analog to what ink[0] does with CLI outputs. Sure, you could write fancy CLI outputs in bash, but ink takes the pain out of it and makes it easy.

[0] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

React is holding me hostage | Mar 2023

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You’re probably referring to https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer | Oct 2022

You may want to try Ink: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

The self-fulfilling prophecy of React | Sep 2022

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Using the Web Platform and using React are not opposites, you can do both. See: Remix as a framework that bakes in these ideas, but using the platform is easily achievable yourself too.

Making this distinction between HTML

s and React shows a clear misunderstanding of the programming model that React provides. It targets the platform in a native way. This is how React DOM, React Native, and libraries like Ink[1] work.

[1] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework | Aug 2022

Interesting other library - React for the terminal. Allows you to build the UIs using familiar web techniques and even has react dev tools!

https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

Writing Programs with Ncurses | Aug 2021

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The most modern terminal GUI (as for 2021) would have to use React: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

ECMAScript for XML - Direct XML Syntax in ECMAScript | Jun 2021

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The same single direction data flow/declarative render model as you’d use for DOM! The most prominent example is Ink: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

Blessed: Curses-like library with high level terminal interface API for Node.js | Apr 2021

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This and other JS CLI libraries are typically used by JS projects that have tooling. Like when create-react-app scaffolds a project and asks you questions to customize it, etc. it's using libraries like this one. For a JS project it's just an easy npm install away as a dependency, and you know your users will have nodejs anyways.

Speed rarely matters for imperative user-facing tools. You're going to be waiting for a user to type and respond far, far longer than making some system calls to write to the shell.

Ink is a more interesting and maintained library to consider though: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink It lets you write react-like apps that output to the terminal instead of HTML.

Building Rich Terminal Dashboards | Feb 2021

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There's `blessed` [0], a plain JS lib similar to `ncurses`. There's also `react-blessed` [1], which is a React renderer that targets `blessed` as the display layer, and `ink` [2], which is also a text-based React renderer but using its own display layer.

[0] https://github.com/chjj/blessed

[1] https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed

[2] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

Command Line Music Visualizer | Dec 2020

Hey that's me!

Repo is here: https://github.com/gdborton/those-cheeks

Built using ink: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

$ ssh cointop.sh | Nov 2020

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Theres ink: a TUI in react, there are others I believe too. https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)? | Sep 2020

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https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit

This is the one that most catches my attention.

Currently actively maintained plus it has something analagous to a document object model https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit/blob/master/doc/docu...

Also Ink is incredibly interesting as it enables ReactJS for creating TUI apps - mind bending!

https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

I can imagine the things above being combined with a sandbox plus Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS https://bellard.org/quickjs/ into a new type of application ..... the "pure text mode browser".

A "pure text mode browser" would not be designed to render ordinary HTML web pages, but would instead be a minimal browser designed only for text mode.